Alice High School quarterback arrested Friday in connection with threats made on Twitter

Oscar Resendez, 18, was arrested on suspicion of making terroristic threats

CORPUS CHRISTI - One student was arrested and another was investigated in two separate threats of violence made on the same day, putting students at Alice High School on lockdown early Friday, police said.

Before 9 a.m. Principal Lucinda Muñoz called Alice Police Department officials to help investigate a rumor that a student wanted to shoot up the school, Assistant Chief Albert Martinez said. The school was put on lockdown while students were questioned. Authorities determined the student didn't have a weapon and had no intention of hurting anyone, Martinez said.

While police still were at the school, other reports came in that one of the school's football players was making threats on his Twitter account, police said.

"We also developed other information that another student was making threats on social media," Martinez said.

Oscar Resendez, 18, was arrested on suspicion of making terroristic threats, a felony. He had bailed out of Jim Wells County Jail on Friday night, officials said.

A search of Resendez's Twitter page showed posts including, "I'm ganna (sic) call in a bomb threat so we can go home" and "Or we could start a riot and kill all the teachers."

Martinez said the first student was not disciplined because it is possible other students were trying to get him in trouble, and that there was no proof of any threat.

"The difference is the first one was a rumor and it was never confirmed; it was word-of-mouth," Martinez said.

Neither incident was sparked by or related to the mass school shooting in Connecticut, officials said.

"Not only in light of Connecticut, but any and all threats are taken seriously as we are able to prove or disprove validity to the best of our ability," Martinez said.

Calls to the school were not returned and football coach Chris Soza declined to comment, saying he did not have details about the arrest.

Resendez was named the football team's most valuable player at the school's athletic banquet Thursday. The quarterback passed for 740 yards and rushed for 550 more in his senior season with the Coyotes.